2023-10-07 11:19:00
The Israeli Prime Minister confirmed the state of war in his first public intervention after the surprise attack by land, sea and air by Palestinian terrorists against Israel
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed this Saturday the state of war in his first public intervention after the surprise attack by land, sea and air by Palestinian terrorists against Israel from the Gaza Strip, which has left at least 22 dead and hundreds of injured.
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“Citizens of Israel, we are at war. Not in an operation, they are not rounds of combat, it is a war,” Netanyahu said in a video broadcast on his social networks.
“We are at war and we will win it,” he stressed, hours after the start of the attack by Hamas, considered a terrorist group by Israel, the United States and the European Union.
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“I ordered, first of all, that the communities into which terrorists had infiltrated be evacuated. This is currently being carried out. At the same time, I have ordered a broad mobilization of reserves and a return fire of a magnitude the enemy has never known. The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” he added.
After the missile bombardment, the Israeli Defense launched an attack against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air as the beginning of its operation “Iron Swords”, in response to the surprise attack that the Islamist group launched this morning towards Israeli territory under the name of operation “Al Aqsa Storm”. , and which has included the launching of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed terrorists by land, sea and air into Israeli territory.
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So far, six deaths and hundreds of injuries have been confirmed on the Israeli side.
Gaza militias continue to fire rockets and air raid sirens have not stopped sounding all morning in cities in southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
In Jerusalem, the streets are deserted by civilians, many of them sheltered in armored shelters, while numerous police troops patrol and thoroughly inspect the streets, parks and parking lots of shopping centers.
A structure on fire after a direct hit in the Israeli city of Gedera following rocket fire today from Gaza. EFE/EPA/ABIR SULTAN
In this regard, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stated that “Israel has the right to defend itself”
”I unequivocally condemn the attack perpetrated by Hamas terrorists against Israel. It is terrorism in its most despicable form. “Israel has the right to defend itself from such atrocious attacks,” Von der Leyen said through a publication on the social network X, formerly called Twitter.
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Europa Press/Contact/Cecilia Fabiano/Archive
For his part, the high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Spanish Josep Borrell, expressed his “solidarity” with Israel on behalf of the Twenty-Seven and called for an end to hostilities because, according to the head of community diplomacy, “violence solves nothing.”
”We follow with anguish the news that comes from Israel. We unequivocally condemn the attacks by Hamas. This horrible violence must stop immediately. Terrorism and violence do not solve anything. The EU expresses its solidarity with Israel in these difficult times,” Borrell wrote on his X account.
While the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, “strongly” condemned Hamas’s attack against Israel and regretted that the attacks had caused “terror and violence against innocent citizens.”
”I strongly condemn the indiscriminate attacks launched against Israel and its people this morning, inflicting terror and violence against innocent citizens. My thoughts are with all the victims. The EU stands in solidarity with the Israeli people in this horrible moment,” Michel expressed on the X social network.
(With information from EFE)
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